Anna Segal takes 3rd @ Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships 2011

photo care of  Dew Tour

 

Anna Segal has continued to dominate this month, taking 3rd in the final Winter Dew Tour stop at Snowbasin, UT today.

I have to send a major shout out to her and all the girls who have been competing back to back from X Games- to World Championships and now Dew Tour. It takes true grit to physically and mentally tackle these comps. Go ladies (and gents for that matter).

Next stop- Aspen, for some freeskiing on a new pair of fatty pow skis with a crew of radical aussie shred-dogs.

- nat segal

ZOE - double backs !

wooohooo ! check out head coach Zoe doing what she does best in the silky soft, light as a feather Japanese powder......

KATYA CREMA at world champs

one of our favourite 'chicks with stix' gals Katya was competing in the FIS Freestyle World Champs here in Park City in Ski X yesterday.

but things didnt exactly go according to plan... after a false start that saw the other 2 competitors in Katya's heat get a 10 metre head start, the race was run anyway... Katya came second but the other competitor (who got a big head start) complained and got a rerun !

kinda sucks for Katya who has been doing so well and getting PB's with each World Cup race recently.  especially sucks to see the competitor that you beat advance through the heats !

anyway... chin up Kats .. your time will come

Anna wins !

so happy for our very own Anna Segal who won GOLD at the inaugural slopestyle event here in Park City.

I managed to have a quick chat with Anna after her awesome win ! we were so excited and Anna was still a bit shell-shocked but totally elated.... after this she was heading off to ring her mum.....

ANNA takes gold !

those prayers must have worked last night, because today Ms Anna Segal just wrote herself into the history books, by winning GOLD in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships !

it was soooooo exciting !

Anna slid into top place with her first run.... and there she stayed !  despite the best efforts by the best female skiers in the world, Anna took gold for Australia ! and she was pretty stoked with this extra special win......

"today wasn't about money or sponsors or points - today was about skiing for my country..." Anna told CwS.

and that is an important point - because slopestyle is being seriously considered for inclusion into the next Olympic Games - roll on 2014 !

Annas’s run was ......... a lipslide on the down rail, a blind 270 out of the a- frame, a disaster on the flat down box and 180 over the bonk feature. On the jumps she did a switch 540 into a huge 720 mute grab and finished off with her patented flat- spin 360.

Anna at the World Championships

so today was day one of the FIS Freestyle World Skiing Championships [#FFWSC11 is the hashtag for those of you on twitter] and our very own Anna Segal has made it through qualifiers and into the finals!

we are so proud of her.......it's a tough field out there with the absolute best of the best "slopestylers" in the world throwing it down!

this morning was a very brisk minus 18 and the event was delayed by about an hour.... the temps made the snow a little sticky and the course a little too slow which is kinda dangerous... these competitors need to go fast and get high !

Anna is on tomorrow (Thursday) at 9:30 am. thats 3:30 am Friday morning in Australia. so say a little prayer before bed tonight gang....


pix: Andrew Clarke 

ZOE in Japan

Zoe is skiing in Niseko Japan right now, where it has been dumping powder for days.  She dropped a line to CwS overnight........

"Well I'm exhausted. You know that deep burn that you get after a hard day skiing waist deep powder in the trees? Well times that by two .... and its still snowing.

They have cleared the snow from our drive three times today and it still feels like a mission to get out! It is day 4 here in Niseko, Japan, and the experience has already lived up to it's name and associated expectations.

I am skiing with the crew at The Camp and we have already had three days powder and one day cruising the park and three resorts around the area. Unfortunately i dont have any photos to prove my ramblings but you can hardly be bothered to bring out the gear when there is so much powder to be had. Promise I will do my best to get some up soon.


Have fun wherever you are in the world!"

AS WE ARE

we've been waiting for this !

the movie 'AS WE ARE' [subtitled a girls ski movie] was filmed last year around some amazing spots in France, Austria and Switzerland and had its debut in Europe, Japan and the US over the past few months.

The idea of the movie ? take six of the best female skiers and go on a road trip together..... ask the girls to show us their favourite runs and their hidden powder stashes.... all set against the stunning scenery of the Alps. its the kind of bonding experience that makes BFF's for life.

I was really hoping to cross paths with this movie sometime in January but alas, it was not to be. Maybe we can convince the girls to come over to OZ / NZ in this upcoming southern winter ?!

the good news ? the movie is now available on DVD....

and bonus - our very own Lorraine Huber [well she's half ours] stars in the movie as well.